Bias

When the Mirror Warps

A mirror is never entirely innocent. It doesn’t just reflect — it frames, distorts, sometimes even betrays. With artificial intelligence this risk multiplies: what we see is not a neutral image, but one filtered through the lenses of training data, cultural bias, and our own expectations.

In When the Mirror Warps, I explored how language models can twist reality into something that feels familiar but is subtly altered. Like a carnival mirror, the reflection keeps our outline recognizable while stretching or compressing the details. The danger is not in the distortion itself, but in the fact that we stop noticing it.